Procedures Expats and Highly-Skilled Migrants

Are you working in the Netherlands as an expat or highly-skilled migrant (kennismigrant)? You are entitled to a special residency status.

The Municipality of The Hague and Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) have introduced a new Dutch residency procedure for expats and highly-skilled migrants (kennismigranten). 

This procedure applies only to expats and highly-skilled migrants who will work for a select group of companies which fall under the special ‘kennismigrantenregeling’ category. The company may already submit an application for a residence permit before the applicant has arrived in the Netherlands. Family members may also make use of this procedure.

The expat or highly-skilled migrant will then have to pay only one visit to the Immigration Office where he/she can register in the Gemeentelijke Basisadministratie (GBA), or the Personal Records Database of the municipality, and be issued his/her residency permit on the spot. 

To read about the exact procedure, click on Registration procedures expats and highly-skilled migrants.

Please note: If your company would like to be considered for this special procedure, please contact the Expatservice by sending an email to expatservice@denhaag.nl. 

Also see

• Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND)